Word: denver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PEARSON Denver...
...people." By last week R-W's security guards alone numbered 162, its total staff 3,040. From the original room the plant has expanded to 450,000 sq. ft. of modern buildings. This year a 140,000-sq-ft. manufacturing plant will be completed in Denver; two years from now a new $15 million headquarters in Los Angeles will give it another 900,000 sq. ft. of space. Its physical assets already amount to $16 million, and on sales of $28.9 million last year, R-W netted a healthy $2,716,600. Three more years should...
IRRADIATED COAL DUST is being tried as fuel by Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. Working to develop atomic locomotive company found that gamma rays can dissolve crushed coal to such fineness that when it is added to diesel oil it burns up completely, increases oil's energy content. Railroad figures atomic coal dust could cut fuel bill by about It a gallon...
...tenacity. Kept dangling by Elodie Hogan, a Catholic girl from California whom he had met in London, Belloc followed her home. He traveled steerage to New York, then "gambled his way across the plains." When his luck and money gave out, he continued on foot "along the Denver and Rio Grande,'' on to San Francisco. Mother Hogan was far from pleased to see the "tattered and penniless Frenchman." Nor could Belloc overcome Elodie's resistance (she wanted to be a nun) until five years of relentless courtship-by mail -persuaded her at last into happy marriage. Eighteen...
...DENVER, April 7--A new spring storm, heavier in some areas but lacking the punch of the recent blizzards, buried the Great Plains with snow for the third time today in two weeks...